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  • When Race Trumps Merit

  • How the Pursuit of Equity Sacrifices Excellence, Destroys Beauty, and Threatens Lives
  • By: Heather Mac Donald
  • Narrated by: Olivia Lewis
  • Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (5 ratings)

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When Race Trumps Merit

By: Heather Mac Donald
Narrated by: Olivia Lewis
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Does your workplace have too few Black people in top jobs? It’s racist. Does the advanced math and science high school in your city have too many Asians? It’s racist. Does your local museum employ too many White women? It’s racist, too. After the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020, prestigious American institutions, from the medical profession to the fine arts, pleaded guilty to “systemic racism”. How else explain why Blacks are overrepresented in prisons and underrepresented in C-suites and faculty lounges, their leaders asked?

The official answer for those disparities is “disparate impact”, a once obscure legal theory that is now transforming our world. Any traditional standard of behavior or achievement that impedes exact racial proportionality in any enterprise is now presumed racist. Medical school admissions tests, expectations of scientific accomplishment in the award of research grants, the enforcement of the criminal law—all are under assault, because they have a “disparate impact” on underrepresented minorities.

When Race Trumps Merit provides an alternative explanation for those racial disparities. It is large academic skills gaps that cause the lack of proportional representation in our most meritocratic organizations and large differences in criminal offending that account for the racially disproportionate prison population. When Race Trumps Merit breaks powerful taboos. But it is driven by a sense of alarm, supported by detailed case studies of how disparate-impact thinking is jeopardizing scientific progress, destroying public order, and poisoning the appreciation of art and culture. As long as alleged racism remains the only allowable explanation for racial differences, we will continue tearing down excellence and putting lives, as well as civilizational achievement, at risk.

©2023 Heather Mac Donald (P)2023 DW Books

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Tough but essential

This is a difficult book to listen to, but we must listen to it. It’s time to reject social justice and call for real justice. Otherwise the consequences will be horrific

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The consequences of diversity and equity

A must listen/read for the understanding of what Diversity, Inclusivety and Equity actually result in.

It's everyone right to have the best doctor, lawyer, engineer, architect, you name it professional, to spend their hard worked money on, as one needs the most qualified for the best and most efficient product/ result.

If you put a less competent person in any position due to meeting the DIE criteria everyone looses. The employer and the customer alike. Less efficiency, creativity and beauty, more errors and therefore increased pricing and law suits. In cases of highgly important professions like e.g. doctors one could remain injured or dead.

One needs to understand that the more complex, important, new and fast changing an environment is the more intelligence is needed. That does not denegrade less intelligent people, but it means they wouldn't be able to perform.

It's hard to accept that someone else is better than oneself, nevertheless everyone is valuable and needed. One has to accept their intellectual, physical and characteristic limitations. As long as we give our best we allways will have a place in society and are valued.

It's the west that created the life everyone wants to live, so live it, contribute to it, or at least don't destroy it. Stop your envy and resentment, but come out of the ashes like the phoenix, transformed and visionary. If you miss to understand the danger of your evil attitude, you will suffer the consequences of your own revenge.

Great book, important message for the west!

In my playback the narration volume was inconsistant and appeared as some words were supressed at times.

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Stop the world, I want to get off!

The hypocrisy of the government, the media and those making a buck off the “victim mentality “.

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a must read

This book is well structured, carefully guiding the reader/listener through critical categories of modern society and how race politics (though well-meaning) is doing more harm than good. MacDonald takes a level, even and considered approach to explaining the truth behind difficult policy and political and social events. This is a proper eye-opener for everyone, of all political persuasion.

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